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and I want to cry. The man trying to help the father find the airplane reminds me of michael. Unable to communicate easily, just trying to help – causes the father to get scared and ends up getting hurt by the father. It makes me feel sick inside. I am feeling bummed today anyway – I bought some refigerant ac…

5 Keys to Being a Leader in Your Industry [#5] By Craig Ballantyne 5) A Book This is what separates the leaders from the pack. “A thought leader needs to be in print a lot…and every thought leader has a book,” Dan Kennedy proclaimed. Even today in the world of social media domination, the power of a book remains vital.…

I manage several different servers with different versions of Linux, Freebsd, OSX and cygwin. The test for shellshock vulnerablity (from a command prompt, ssh or telnet): env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable’ bash -c “echo this is a test” showed that all but one were vulnerable. On most of them, simply updating bash did the trick But on an old…

I watched the movie Peaceful Warrior for the first time last night. I have read book it is based on, Way of the Peaceful Warrior multiple times since I was a teenager. So I am in a reflective and soul searching frame of mind. I made the following lists (non-edited brain dumps in order of thinking of it, *not* priority)…

a friend at work lost their spouse to cancer. what do I tell them? My condolences? trite, cliche. meaningless. About my losses, and that I understand their pain? This feels like I would be making it about me. That I am sorry? – it is not my fault To let me know if I can do anything? I am not…

Just a quick jot down of some thoughts I was just discussing with a co-worker: 1. don’t create a website or furnish an office (or even worry about a name, logo, letterhead etc.) until you know what you want to sell. 2. don’t choose something to sell unless you know what your target market wants and how they get it.…

There are some slight spoilers below – read my review on goodreads to avoid any spoilers This book disturbed me – as any good book should. My youngest son who is now 11 years old, is mentally handicapped (our current politically correct term for mentally retarded) and also has some physical handicaps. I also have several neighbors who have mentally…

One downside to running your own server is that you are responsible for make sure it is secure against hackers and people trying to use it for un-authorized or illegal activities. I am responsible for a server that was being used to attack another server. I found that the hackers had uploaded a script to the /tmp folder and were…